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Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync.
I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways:
- global pattern matching eg "node_modules"
- a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore
- a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder"
Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers.
Tom
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Please implement it so the user can define file types to exclude. Not everyone uses popular software like msword. Your professional (paying) users like designers might use Adobe InDesign of programmers Eclipse and a lot of more. Just give us more control. I choose for Dropbox cause it is more advanced than the others on the marked, please keep it like that.
This is so sad...
Three years passed. Nothing changed.
So **bleep** simple - .dropignore
Google Drive doesn't, OneDrive doesn't, and neither does Dropbox. That's not stupid, that's intentional. Make a free unlimited sync service supported by minimal adds, and take my money! Home folder sync, include and exclude patterns. Simple
Ha! This is a great workaround which I tested and works for the time being (aalthough it requires manually selecting the folder to unsync etc...) . http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/exclude-folders-from-syncing
I support this feature request - this would allow to ignore caches, etc...
Although I do not share the seemingly common view that "this should be trivial to implement" blablabla.... I will leave the technical evaluation to the competent teams of kickass dropbox engineers who have built a strong and capable product over the years.
Hope to see this someday!
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+1 for this. Really badly needed feature that is present in other sync solutions I use.
+1000
Currently syncing multiple large PSDs for a project over slow connection & want to ignore the ones I know won't be needed by client. Moving individual files out of my dropbox gets messy and means more work for me when the project is completed & i need to archive it to local storage.
The way github implements this with .gitignore was perfect.
How can we put pressure on Dropbox to start listening to their customers? Maybe start directly pinging their CEO or CTO?
